Creative Tidbits: Design Students, Apple, Logos

This issue of Creative Tidbits brings some great references ... but the real gem is the Steve Jobs video. This is true creativity at work. But I know you'll enjoy these as well:[ ] Good Life: Posters bring arts festival to life[ ] Students design patch for final shuttle crew[ ] Must see: Steve Jobs pitches city council[ ] iD Tech Camps Debuts Graphic Design Course[ ] Pac-12 Championship Game Logo Contenders[ ] Form + Function[ ] Electric Art

Must see: Steve Jobs pitches city council

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs pitches his proposal for a new 150 acre Apple Campus to the Cupertino City Council. (Reminiscent of his famous keynotes.) This presentation was recorded Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at the Cupertino Community Hall. "We've hired some of the best architects in the world" ... "As Hewlet Packard has been shrinking lately, they decided to sell the property, and we bought it" . . . "It all used to be apricot orchards ... " ... "12,000 people in one building!" .... "boring office parks... we'd like to do better than that... " .... move in 2015. Full story : Steve Jobs - Apple Computer Here, take another look

Pac-12 Championship Game Logo Contenders

Ever seen a great idea and a horrible one all rolled up into one? If not, you're about to. The Pac-10 has decided to put the process of selecting the Pac-12 Championship Game logo to a popular vote, and I gotta be honest -- all four logos are pretty attractive. Great idea, right? Well, here's the terrible part: The voting opened today and closes on Monday -- also known as Memorial Day. Full story : www.cougcenter.com Here, take another look

Form + Function

Form + Function is a furniture company based in Melbourne Australia. With a focus on contemporary furniture from local and international designers, Form + Function asked us to develop an identity and branding system that reflects the contemporary style of their furniture. Identity developed by Qube Konstrukt -- a multi-disciplinary design practice, a studio in which inspiration, ideas and creativity are free to manifest themselves through different mediums., Melbourne, Australia Full story : Qube Konstrukt Here, take another look

Good Life: Posters bring arts festival to life

For 37 years, Lanny Sommese has been creating the images that usher in the Arts Fest and walk visitors through the five-day celebration that fills the streets of downtown State College. "Thirty-seven years. Holy mackerel," Sommese said, after doing the math. Full story : www.centredaily.com Here, take another look

Students design patch for final shuttle crew

Very few objects have ever been launched into space, but a few Drexel students will have the distinct experience of having their creations carried into orbit. A team of graphic design students has given the crew on the final space shuttle mission something that the astronauts will hold close to their hearts, literally, by designing the special mission patch that will be attached to the astronauts' uniforms. Full story : David Stephenson - thetriangle.org Here, take another look

Electric Art

ARE you kidding me ???? They called it retouching .. .but WOW ... each eye was deep etched and transplanted onto the head, making sure that every fold of skin, and eyelash were realistically recreated. Freaky! photographer: Andreas Smetana; agency: McCanns San Francisco; art director: Tim Stier Full story : Electric Art Here, take another look

iD Tech Camps Debuts Graphic Design Course

iD Tech Camps, an industry leader in summer technology education, will debut new classes to lessen the STEM gender gap this summer. Women earn a shockingly low 20% of bachelor's degrees in STEM fields such as physics, engineering and computer science. Concerned about the gender gap, the American Association of University Women published a comprehensive study in 2010 identifying key factors that contribute to the problem: (1) girls' low self-assessment of their STEM skills and (2) dry STEM course work that tends towards the purely technical. Full story : iD Tech Camps And iD Teen Academies Here, take another look

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